One Step at a Time

You know that old saying "Early to bed, early to rise..." Well I seem to be living it out these days. It amazes me how I have been waking up early ready to "grab hold of the day". I have so much energy and therefore exercising seems like a good thing.

So I turned on the TV, stuck my Wiifitplus in the Wii and choose my mode of fat burning for the day.

Today I chose to do a 30 minute step aerobics that is set up so that you can set your pace and then turn regular TV and watch a show while you do it.

The wii remote has a speaker with the "instructor" who will tell you when to change steps.

Instead of watching a TV program though I turned on Music and fed my insides as well as my outside.

Anyways as I was doing the exercise it made the following observations.

1. Starting is easy

At the beginning I had all kinds of energy and enthusiasm. My arms were moving, my feet were flying. I felt great. Well after 15 minutes of that I started to get tired. The thought occurred to me to quit.

But I felt Gods nudge reminding me to stay the course. Sure it is easy to start with enthusiasm but it is the people who do not quit who are successful at what they lay their hands too.

So I stayed the course and finished strong. Just like I will do in my journey!

2. Sometimes things get in the way

The little kitten I have seemed to want to trip me up while I was exercising. He kept running behind me and I had to keep an eye on him at all times to make sure that I wouldn’t fall and hit myself on the coffee table of something.

I know that when someone is making a lifestyle change there are always going to be plenty of things that want to trip them up.

It is very important to watch out for them and to remember that if something should cause you to stumble that it is important to keep going.

Yesterday instead of my usual salad for lunch I had some of those barbeque chicken wings. You know the kind m the greasy not good for your diet ones.

Well after I ate it the thought occurred …well you blew today. You might as well eat whatever you want. But I knew that that thinking got me where I was today. That even though I may have tripped myself up a little it was important to know that it was far better for me to get up right away when tripped up than to stay down and add on the pounds.

3. One Step at a time

While I was exercising I sometimes did not keep pace with the instructor. I speed up a little. And I soon realized that the Wii was not counting my steps properly.

It is so ease to get ahead of the plan, so much so that we lose count of where we are going.

I realize that if I want to be successful in this quest I have to not get ahead of myself.

Slow and steady wins the race.